Daniel Craig mentioned in a current interview with the U.Ok.’s Sunday Occasions that he couldn’t have performed his character in Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” whereas engaged on James Bond motion pictures.

Within the movie “Queer,” based mostly on the 1985 semi-autobiographical novella of the identical identify by William S. Burroughs, Craig performs William Lee, an American expat who turns into infatuated with a discharged U.S. Navy serviceman named Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey).

“I couldn’t have carried out this whereas doing Bond,” Craig advised the Sunday Occasions. “It might look reactionary, like I used to be exhibiting my vary.”

He continued, “Early on with Bond I assumed I needed to do different work, however I didn’t. I used to be changing into a star, no matter meaning, and folks needed me of their movies. Unimaginable. Most actors are out of labor for big chunks so you are taking your job affords — however they left me empty. Then, backside line, I bought paid. I used to be so exhausted on the finish of a Bond it will take me six months to get better emotionally. I at all times had the angle that life should come first and, when work got here first for some time, it strung me out.”

Craig performed the titular British Secret Service agent in 5 Bond motion pictures from 2006 to 2021. He first starred in “On line casino Royale” and ended his tenure with “No Time to Die.”

Elsewhere in his interview with the Sunday Occasions, Craig dismissed the concept portraying a homosexual man whereas nonetheless main the Bond franchise would have made an announcement on masculinity.

“It’s simply not a dialog I needed. I had it all over Bond anyway,” he defined. “Might there be this Bond? That Bond? So something that’s going to inflame that dialog? No — life’s too quick.”